Everyone please help! I totally screwed up. I used Pellon EZ-Steam to fuse some letters down then sewed them. Apparently, in my rush to finish this project & my distraction with my 4-year-old I…Continue

Hi fellow applique'ers.I have a problem i hope you can help me with.I have been given a premade, thick, minky type blanket and was asked to applique a name onto it. Theoretically, not too big an…Continue

What do you think is the best technique for applique? I do needle turn, but I'm not really comfortable with it. I'm trying back basting, but I have to draw chalk lines to be able to turn under the…Continue

lollol! yup my beloved ipad went out on it's own, did it's own thing ...& now it's dead. i can wipe & install fresh ..but then i lose forever all my lovely bookmarks, pictures of my grand treasures and a whole lot more. :(( ..i've got my son checking on a way around the final death thing, he's a programmer, so until i see him nxt weekend i'm not giving up hope. i have a pc -win 7- custome build. i don't buy warrenties & have a fantastic computer guru in next town down the road. my son built my computers for years, but he's not doing that anymore, especially w two EXTREMELY BUSY li'l darlin's taking all of his free time now! when my pc died couple years ago i was w/o it for a couple of months while they tried to find the problem, they were able to extract all my records & files from the old hard drive for me & when they got my new custom built i reinstalled everything. except my software items like EQ ..still need to do that. but i have some health issues and my son got me an ipad so i can read while laying on the couch on "bad" days. unfortunately ...heeheehee ..it also take great photos, so i use it for my quilting, pics of my grand treasures, yard projects, etcetcetc ..and i haven't downloaded stuff off of it to my pc in too long. sigh! ...and i soooooo miss my hydropowered ebooks! he put me on his kindle account & i was in the middle of a great book in the middle of a great series ...sob!

another excellent site w tutes and videos is jenny beyers site, but i don't have her site links handy right now. she hand pieces and hand quilts many of her quilts, always has.

my ipad blew up, lost all my wonderful bookmarks and have been spending time, when i can, wandering around & searching for and saving links to some of my very most fave & useful places w charts, calculaters, patterns etcetcetc

mary, i haven't really been too interested in folk art style wool appliqué, but did start a stash of wool & wool blends before our last move to do some miniature amish style quilts that i drafted patterns for based on some that i liked in some of my books. years ago while living in Pennsylvania i read an article in local paper that mentioned early amish quilts were sometimes quilted w yarn instead of thread & i thought 'YES!' that would be so cool to do a mini and quilt it w fingering wieght yarn. but ..that stuff's all still packed.

riana, my friend doesn't use cotton bg, she buys old clothing, felts it and uses the felted wool for appliqé shapes & background. after i saw what she was creating i decided that i would look for some wool in the thrift shops hubby & i frequent. decided to try a small project. finally told her that she buys/shops more than i do ..i never found any wool clothes at all. not even mens pants which i would love to get hold of ..the fabric weaves and appearance of the wool in men's slacks are so wonderful. perfect for a quilt.

Eileen you can make your own wool felt with wool roving soap n water but it is tough on my arms. It is fun to do. I get with my weaving friends n we did some wool felting it's fun and then you can get the colors you want. Raw wool dyed then felted.

Wish l could find real wool in thrift shops, but alas, the rug hookers ( there's a lot of them here) always seem to beat me to it. l HAVE found a quilt shop in a town an hour away that carries wool in fat eighths, but it's pricey. I wonder how washable those items made with wool applique on cotton bg are?

Lisa, I have a wool applique project going right now, as well as a Kim McLean one and a Blackbird Designs one. Add to that, I'm taking a class on Tuesday from Mark Lipinski which requires a ton of what he calls "pre-class cutting".

I spend way too much time on the computer! That's my biggest downfall. I read more about quilting than actually doing it!

i feel the same way lisa. i joined a guild years ago after another job related move. but never had the free time to attend meetings tho i met several members and visited with. but i became interested in appliqué long before then. i am very slow & getting slower as the hands continue to worsen w arthr, but i still love it. the slow pace is as soothing to me as hand quilting, which is another part of quilting that i am extremely slow with :))